Monthly Career Forecast

By Maria DeSimone

Cancer Career Horoscope: February 2013

High hopes

Working with unconventional individuals is one of your challenges this month. The Sun, which is in quirky Aquarius until February 18, occupies your 8th House of Deep Sharing, where you are likely to encounter co-workers and customers with values and methods very different from your own. Your willingness to explore new ways of working is useful, but it doesn't mean you have to give into to every crazy idea someone else has.

Alluring Venus is also in this part of your chart until February 25, reminding you that you can benefit, perhaps financially, from the bright ideas of others. At the same time, though, don't let your need to be liked take you so far away from your values that you can't take care of business.

Education and travel may be fertile fields for you with active Mars and mental Mercury in the 9th House of Higher Learning and Faraway Places. The New Moon in Aquarius on February 9 lands in your 8th House of Deep Sharing, kicking up opportunities to combine forces with others. But don't let enthusiasm get out of hand because managing a combination of high hopes and stark reality demands caution.

The optimism comes from an enterprising and expansive square between dynamic Mars and outgoing Jupiter on February 10. But later that day values-oriented Venus forms a tense square with restrictive Saturn, which can limit resources or present personnel problems that will need to be sorted out before taking any giant steps. The pragmatic Virgo Full Moon on February 25 occurs in your data-based 3rd House of Communication, where having control of information and mastery of facts is a must.